ESG is the service discovery tool both for the consumers and for the client applications on the mobile terminal. The ESG provides the consumers with rich, up-to-date information about the services. ESG also serves the mobile terminal middleware with signaling data to enable service lookup from the DVB-H stream and playback with the correct client software and codecs.
There are two groups of ESG standards. One is from the DVB group, called IPDC ESG [77]. The current IPDC ESG version is 1.0 with version 2.0 in the development stage. The other group of ESG is from the OMA group, called OMA BCAST ESG [78]. The current OMA BCAST ESG version is 1.0, which is still in the finalizing stage at the writing of this book while the BMCO forum has already tested and declared a preliminary commercial version of OMA BCAST ESG.
The term “Service Guide” and “ESG” in this chapter are identical regarding to the meaning.
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(2008). Electronic Service Guide. In: Handover in DVB-H. Signals and Communication Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78630-6_5
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